... ESO is building what will be the World's largest optical telescope array, The Very Large Telescope (VLT). The VLT Project organisation is responsible for the design and construction of the Unit Telescopes, including enclosures, optics, adapter-rotators and coating unit. ... Unit Telescopes Overview - This page is outdated, an update is in process. ... Secondary mirror (M2 Unit) - This page is outdated, an update is in process. ... Coating Unit - This page is outdated, an update is in process. ...

... Photos provided by NASA JSC Image Repository and Mike Fox . ... Centrifuge . 1965 . Suit comfort test . ... Centrifuge medical . ... 1966 . ... Fox next to . centrifuge 1967 . ... 1967 . Couch comfort . ... centrifuge . ... Fox egressing . from centrifuge . ... gravity training . ... Return to Mike Fox . ...

Проект существует с июля 2002 года. Цель проекта - дать краткий обзор наиболее интересных статей, появившихся в библиотеке электронных препринтов astro-ph . Также в обзоры будут включаться статьи, появившиеся в списке astro-ph из других разделов. ... Параллельно в 2002-2003 гг. создавался списки обзорных статей, в которых подробно освещаются те или иные часто обсуждаемые вопросы (например, статья А. Линде hep-th/0107176 является одной из лучших обзорных статей по инфляции). ...

... SAI CAS . ... Catalog Access Services . ... This site is about the Virtual Observatory project at the Sternberg Astronomical Institute, Moscow University ( SAI MSU ). We provide a public access to the growing set of astronomical services developed by the SAI RVO development team in accordance with the Virtual Observatory standards. ... We provide access (programmatic and interactive) to the all major and biggest astronomical catalogs (about 4 billions objects total) as well as other web-services. ...

. Caption above photo . John Korienek/FNL beigns work on installing the final mapping station hardware. Dave Goloski and Jerry Zimmerman (both from FNL) will be joing in on the fun over the weekend. Final installation pictures will be available next Tuesday. Photos taken by Gretchen Van Doren/APO.

... Free Telescopes for Schools in Northern Ireland . ... The Society for Popular Astronomy is leading a project to give 1000 telescopes to secondary schools, with support from the Science and Technology Facilities Council and the Royal Astronomical Society, to encourage schools to celebrate the International Year of Astronomy. ... ТЗ School display on astronomy . ... Register with all Ireland astronomy schools competition 2009. ... International Year of Astronomy, Ireland National Node . ...

... S.P. KOROLEV ROCKET AND SPACE CORPORATION ENERGIA . ... OAO RSC "Energia" . ... Company's History . ... Brief History of Rocket and Space Technology . ... ISS Russian Segment . ... News . ... S.P. Korolev Rocket Space Corporation Energia provides manufacturing and delivery of the Russian completing parts for ATV and integration of these vehicles within the ISS Russian Segment. ... Contribution of RSC Energia to the Russian Rocket-Space Technology . ... 2015 JSC "S.P. Korolev RSC "Energia" . ...

The main purpose of the Magnetospheric Yellow Pages is to provide links to space physics data servers. However, we also provide a list of magnetospheric physics Projects. Some of these project pages provide access to data and others do not. ... A good example is the ISTP Project Home Page which provides a starting point for information about ISTP but which requires some clicking to find how to actually access the data. ... Data Servers sorted by Data Type . ... Project Pages . ...

... Main . ... The RadioAstron is an international space VLBI project led by the Astro Space Center of Lebedev Physical Institute in Moscow, Russia. ... List of organizations which were taken part in developing of the project and now support the RadioAstron mission is presented here . The RadioAstron Newsletter # 29 , July 18, 2015. RadioAstron Announcement of Opportunity - 4 for observations from July 2016 to June 2017 inclusive. ... 2.7, December 17, 2015 : English version. ... Main ASC . ...

Since 1994, the Astronomical Society of the Pacific's (ASP) highly successful national Project ASTRO? program has been providing opportunities for professional and amateur astronomers to contribute to science education in their local communities. ... The original "classic" Project ASTRO educator-astronomer partners found tremendous interest in what they were doing among the families of their students, and thus Family ASTRO was born to continue at home what was begun in the classroom. ...

... NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has provided a never-before-seen view of a warped disk flooded with a torrent of ultraviolet light from hot gas trapped around a suspected massive black hole. ... This composite image of the core of the galaxy was constructed by combining a visible light image taken with Hubble's Wide Field Planetary Camera 2 (WFPC2), with a separate image taken in ultraviolet light with the Faint Object Camera (FOC). ... The inset box shows Hubble Space Telescope's field of view. ...

... ИСТОРИЯ ГАИШ - хроника, музей, персоналии, мемуары, периодика . Сайт "HERITAGE - астрономия, астрономическое образование с сохранением традиций" ориентирован на студентов 1 и 2-го курсов астрономического отделения физического факультета МГУ и отражает ранением традиций" ориентирован на студентов 1 и 2-го курсов астрономического отделения физического факультета МГУ и отражает работу, проводимую сотрудниками ГАИШ МГУ и физического факультета МГУ по расширению астрономического образования студентов. ...

... The Chandra Multiwavelength Project (ChaMP) seeks to understand the nature and evolution of quasars, galaxies, and clusters of galaxies in a large, carefully constructed multi-wavelength survey. ... Recent ChaMP Papers . The Field X-ray AGN Fraction to z=0.7 from the Chandra Multiwavelength Project and the Sloan Digital Sky Survey , Haggard, D., Green, P.J., Anderson, S.F., Constantin, A., Aldcroft, T., Kim, D.-W., Barkhouse, W.A. 2010, ApJ, 723, 1447 (arXiv:1004.1638) . ... 2009, ApJ, 690, 644 . ...

... Parameters . Filters . ... Direct images . ... The SCORPIO-2 project: . Spectral Camera with Optical Reducer for Photometric and Interferometric Observations - 2 . The broad-band glass filters made in SAO RAS are used for the observation in the Johnson-Cousins (UBVRI) photometric system in the direct images mode. The glass filters transmission curves are shown by solid line. ... The filters transmission curves of the `comets' filters measured with the SCORPIO-2 in the F/4 beam. ...

... Tonight's Sky . ... Observing . ... Sky this Month . ... The Sky This Week: April 1 - 10 . ... Sky this Week . Observing Podcasts . ... Astronomy for Kids . ... Sky Events . ... Observing springtime deep-sky objects with a large telescope . Springtime observing for small telescopes . ... Seasonal Observing . ... Observing Basics . ... SKA South Africa Project Office, Johannesburg . ... Receive news, sky-event information, observing tips, and more from Astronomy's weekly email newsletter. ...

... a) As source material for the high-school or college curriculum, especially in physics. astronomy and their history. (b) As a source of supplemental projects by high school students or by undergraduates. (c) As material for independent studies, In particular by motivated students who seek to know more about space . ... Those wishing to look up specific topics are advised to use the index file, accessible from the end of any "Exploration" file. ... files not listed and at other resource material. ...

... This immense ball of half a million stars older than the sun lies 30,000 light-years above the plane of our Galaxy. ... The Incredible Expanding Cats Eye . ... As this animation blinks between two Hubble Space Telescope images of NGC 6543 - the first from 1994 and the second from 1997 - the intricate filaments of this nebula are seen to shift. ... The Big Corona . ... The Colorful Orion Nebula . ... Stonehenge consists of large carved stones assembled about 4000 years ago. ...

... We present the algorithm and implementation details for the robust, realtime bandpass removal and calibration routine developed for the HI Parkes All Sky Survey project. ... Traditionally, the bandpass that is present in single-dish 21 cm spectra is removed by observing in a ``signal-reference'' mode. ... The robust bandpass removal algorithm implemented for the HIPASS Project successfully produces calibrated HI emission line spectra for most of the survey data. ...

In the conference room on October 28th: . click on the thumbnail photos to see larger size ones) . At the conference room on February 1st: . ... After the official part on February 2nd: . ... At the plenary session on August 6th: . At the regular and poster sessions on August 9th: . After all in working room on August 12th: . ...

I read with interest the letter from Stephen White in the June 2001 edition of the ATNF Newsletter, pointing out that the current 3-mm upgrade of the ATCA, while providing powerful new facilities, will not provide the first 3-mm interferometer in the Southern Hemisphere. ... The interferometer and eclipse results, taken together, indicated that the solar brightness distribution at a wavelength of 3-mm was constant over the disc except for a narrow bright ring at the solar limb. ...